Greetings. We're finally kicking off our little Solr project. We're
indexing a paltry 25,000 records but each has MANY documents attached, so
we're using Tika to parse those documents into a big long string, which we
use in a call to solrj.addField("relateddoccontents",
bigLongStringOfDocumentContents). We don't care about search results
pointing back to a particular document, just one of the 25K records, so
this should work.
Now my question. Many of these records have related records in other
tables, and there are several types of these related records. For example,
we have record #100 that my have blue records with numbers 1111, 2222,
3333, and 4444, and red records with numbers 5555, 6666, 7777, 8888.
Currently we're just handling these the same way as related document
contents -- we concatenate them, separated by spaces, into one long string,
then we do solrj.addField("redRecords", stringOfRedRecordNumbers). That
is, stringOfRedRecordNumbers is "1111 2222 3333 4444".
We have no need to show these records to the user in Solr search results,
because we're going to use the database for displaying of detailed
information for any records found. Is there any reason to specify
redRecords and blueRecords as multivalued fields in schema.xml? And if we
did that, we'd call solrj.addField() once for each value, would we not?
cheers,
Travis
